Attacking: Running

It is very important to know how and when to control your players to run. If you want to attack, you need people to run up for offensive measure. We all know the importance of making runs when we saw last night match between Spain vs Germany.



Now im going to share the direction to make your players run. There are 2 direction which is direct and indirect.



Direct:



Direct means you point your movement key base on where the position of the players that you want to run. For example:





So by actually pointing towards the midfielder and the winger, they will start to run into their respective position. This is what most of us always do.



Indirect:



For indirect, instead of pressing the run button which is Q on keyboard for indirect you press Q to the direction of the outside line. For example,






If you press Q once, the winger will be running first. But if you press Q twice, the winger and striker will run too. So this is indirect Q.



This are the 2 common direction that can be use to control your players to run nicely. Try experiment with it to get the right timing for your own play ^^

Mentality: Its Your Brain That Matters

In mentality section, we will discuss the brain part of the game. This is the hardest part to train since it requires a lot of understanding through practice and experience. But dont worry. That is why The FIFA Blog is here for you ^^




Normally we have the perception that those who can perform amazing movement such as Ronaldo dribbling skills or Lampard amazing long shot will win the game. Like for example if you can do "360" movement or unblockable crosses its consider as an amazing thing. But unfortunately football doesnt just revolve on 1 thing. It involves everything.




I learn this during WCG Grand Final 05 in Singapore. In the quarter final im going against Troll from Austria. He is very strong and he beat Gel (Malaysia No.1) in the group stage eventually top the group. Everyone regard him as the favourite of the tournament because his ability to do his crosses almost 100%.




During the quarter finals, i already had a plan in my mind to play mind games with him. Since i know he depends a lot in his crosses, i just let him come in the danger zone and just wait to block his crosses. Everytime i saw his ready to do his cross, i start my defensive movement to stop him. The 1st game prove that my strategies work when i beat him. But he was also unfortunate because i manage to injured his Henry accidentally. France without Henry is useless.



But in the 2nd game, his crosses still needs to be feared when he manage to trash me 5-1. Luckily it was best of 3 games. So the 3rd game was the decider. He was leading with 2 goals in the 1st half then an unfortunate event happen to me when my Joe Cole got send off for dangerous sliding. Yup im playing with 10 men now. But i've already practice playing with 10 men before in Malaysia because during that time i am well known to be so aggressive that i always get red card in a match.



So i still maintain the same way to defend his crosses thus making him not able to slot any more goals pass my goal. And i revert into an counter attacking tactic everytime he fail to do his crosses. This in the end put him under pressure and he started to do lots of mistakes in the end when i slot my 1st goal in the 2nd half. Then in the last min i manage to get an equalizer goal!



We continue into the extra time with silver goal ruling. From his play he is starting to get frustrated on the draw and start to commit lots of people to attack. And he keeps on doing the same crosses trick which i gladly anticipate to block. He keep on repeating the same cross on and on and on eventhough he know he cant score. It looks like he just had a mind block and i took full advantage of this when i slot the winning goal in extra time. Again i was playing with 10 men.




So as you can see it is not what you can do that matters. Its what your brain can do that matters. So when you play always remember that life dont always go to the strongest or fastest man, but often the man who win is the man who THINKS he can!



So play beautiful football ^^

Defending: Goalie

In defending section, we will cover all the stuff about defending. Although i am not really that good in this area but at least i can still help with the basic.



I believe everyone here have undergo a situation where you have to defend 1 on 1 or a situation where it is most likely you gonna concede. And the only one who can stop you from concede any goal is your GK. But i believe everyone can see that sometimes they are not reliable as well.



Well here is some trick that i wanna share with you using graphics below:

1 on 1 Situation

During 1 on 1 situation or similar situation to this, you must be ready to use your GK as your last resort. It is very important to anticipate the speed and the position of the striker. The striker is most dangerous when he is walking because this show that your opponent is anticipating any movement from your GK. So be very careful when he is walking.




Now when the striker is this near to your box, it is time to bring out your GK. When you bring out your GK, do not bring him out from the small box yet. At this moment you will be playing mind games with him. Plus by keeping your GK in the small box it will reduce the chances for the striker to score because you are closing the angle for him to shoot. But if you come out of the box and the striker is still a distance from your GK, its gonna be a piece of cake for the striker to score.

Anticipation Time

When your GK is about to come out from the small box, try to anticipate the striker movement. See is he going to shoot or still moving forward. If he still moving forward then bring out your GK all the way to grab the ball. If the striker wanna shoot, pull back your GK to cover up the space expose at the far post. This should be enough to stop a few goals from going in.



Now there are disadvantage by using this method. If the striker do a dummy shot then most probably it will result in a goal in the end. Even the striker can also do a chip shot if your opponent is good at it. But all of this can be minimize by doing a lot of practice using this method. You might be expecting a few free goals when you 1st started using this method but once you've understand the concept you can make Julio Cesar into Buffon in no time. You can also stop any other common finishing by using this concept as well if you've already understand the concept.



In the end practice makes perfect. So play beautiful football ^^

Attacking: Mix Your Passes

In attacking section, we will discuss on the attacking area obviously.



Now some of us has this feeling that playing long ball is consider as cheap shot. Because of this we seldom do long ball and play more passes on the ground. Saying that its beautiful football to play without long ball and makes it more realistic.


I dont wanna debate on beautiful football because everyone has its own opinion about this issue. But what i would like to share is the benefit of mixing your passes.


Normally when we play just with ground passes, formation such as 433 and 424 can easily pressure the defence thus producing passing mistakes. So the only way to get out of this pressuring trap is to do a long ball to your midfielder.

424 Attackers Pressuring The Defense

It seems like there is no way out for the defender rite. The only way out against 424 is to play a longball to the midfielder.

1 Longball And You Free Yourself

As you can see, just by doing 1 simple long ball, you are set to demolish 424 defense with 6 attackers vs 6 defender. Now if you mix your passes correctly, you will be able to launch a successful attack against the defender even before they can react to your longball.

Mixing Up Passes And You Just Unleash A Deadly Attack

Just applying something simple to your play, you've just manage to punish any defensive mistake. If just focus on one type of passes, it is almost unlikely to do the above scenario. Besides that, mixing up passes does create what we so call beautiful football.


Hope this help everyone to understand the importance of mixing up your passes. So play attacking football ^^

New Structure For Better Quality

Starting from today, The FIFA Blog will be using a new structure. This is to ensure that The FIFA Blog will be able to produce article daily and to satisfied the readers need. This is also to thanks all the readers who have been supporting the blog.



The new structure is as follow:

• Monday:Motivation
• Tueday: Attacking
• Wednesday: Defending
• Thursday: Mentality
• Friday: Discussion And Debate

So by implementing this new structure, this will ensure The FIFA Blog to meets its 1st objective which is to give the latest and exciting tips and tricks for FIFA. At the same time, The FIFA Blog will be able to cover all aspect of the game. So no part will be left out.



Hopefully this will help all the players to improve more of their gameplay. Last word, play beautiful football! ^^

Attacking: Loopholes

Everybody likes to play attacking style of football rite? We love to see fast play, nice passes and deadly finishing. When we get the ball the only thing we think is the goal. If you like to do such thing, here is a tip that might make ur wishes come to true.


A good gamer is a gamer who knows how to find loopholes in their opponent's defence. Although every opponent have their own defending style, but every formation have their loopholes as well.


For example:

The arrow indicating the loopholes

As you can see 442 have loopholes in between their players. Passes that revolves around this loopholes is very hard to def because it is their natural weakness. That is why formation like 433 can easily penetrate 442 because their natural position revolves around 442 loopholes.

433 position are naturally at 442 loopholes

Every formation have different loopholes. Passes that you normally do against 442 doesnt really work against 433 because of different loopholes. Passes that you normally do against 433 also doesnt work on 442. That is why it is very important to understand every formation advantage and disadvantage.



So to be a good gamer you must understand both your opponent and yourself. With this knowledge, any defense in the world even if its like a brick of wall you can penetrate easily.


So play attacking football! ^^

Spotgamers

In Malaysia, currently we have a few medias who actually doing coverage about gaming. But sadly there not much exposure done for the gamers. So the gamers are always left out and became unknown to the public. This in the end harm their way to attain sponsorship because there are not much publicity done for the gamers.


So this is where Spotgamers come around. Spotgamers- Your Delicious Gamers News, is the only online media in Malaysia that only focus on gamers. Imagine MTV+ESPN+E! Entertainment channel. Spotgamers going to interview gamers, do match review, write hot gossips and hot stories, give coverage to tournament and much much more. By doing this, Spotgamers hope that this will allow more exposure for gamers in Malaysia to be known to the community.



For more info about this, why dont we go to their website at http://spotgamers.blogspot.com ^^